Dialog takeover is a disaster for Europe says Arm pioneer
Hermann Hauser said Dialog had developed world leading technology that should be kept in Europe
Hermann Hauser is a founder of Acorn, the business which created the Arm technology
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A Japanese takeover of Reading-based Dialog Semiconductor has been branded a disaster for Europe by Arm pioneer Hermann Hauser.
Chip designer Dialog announced earlier this week that it had agreed to a €4.9bn (£4.3bn) takeover by Renesas Electronics, a Tokyo-based company which is among the largest suppliers of automotive chips.
Hermann Hauser, the founder of Acorn whose technology was spun out to create Arm and a venture partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, said Dialog had developed world leading technology.
People Digest: CDC makes two key appointments; Partner Tak Wai Chung leaves EQT
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February 4, 2021
CDC Group has announced two appointments while Swedish alternative investment firm EQT’s Partner Tak Wai Chung has announced his departure from the firm.
CDC announces two key appointments
CDC Group Plc, the UK’s development finance institution, has announced two appointments in a move to scale up its venture capital strategy across Africa and South Asia.
Anne Glover, CEO of Amadeus Capital Partners and Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England, will join CDC as a member of its newly-formed Venture Capital Investment Committee. She is joined on the committee by Nikunj Jinsi, former Global Head of Venture Capital at IFC.
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25 January 2021 | Alan Burkitt-Gray The era of faster, more powerful computers and data centres has come a step closer with the injection of US$20 million into a start-up company that has developed an operating system for quantum computers.
Cambridge-based Riverlane is using the money to build its operating system, Deltaflow, and to expand to the US, Europe and elsewhere.
Steve Brierley, founder and CEO of Riverlane, said: “For a quantum ecosystem to thrive, we urgently need an operating system. An operating system makes quantum computers useful it allows programs and applications to run on many different machines. Riverlane aims to make our operating system Deltaflow a global standard.”
UKtech50 2021: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology
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Computer Weekly has opened voting for the annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK technology – the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving forward the UK’s digital economy.
Whoever tops the list will be the person who, in the opinion of our judges and readers, holds the most influence over the future of the UK tech sector in 2021 – and hence the future of IT professionals across the country.
January 18, 2021
UK-based start-up Xampla has closed a £6.2 million ($8.4m) seed financing round as it looks to accelerate the rollout of its ‘next generation’ bioplastics. Led by the backers behind video conferencing app Zoom, the investment follows an initial £2m ($2.7m) round announced in April 2020. Xampla, a University of Cambridge spin-off company, wants to replace…
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